Overview

The Elimatta Project is located in Southern Queensland, approximately 45 kilometres (km) southwest of Taroom and 380 km northwest of Brisbane. The Project covers approximately 5,000 hectares, including the Mining Lease applications 50254, 50271 and 50270 and land underlying a 36 km long rail and services corridor connecting the project area to the Surat Basin Rail corridor.

Key project infrastructure includes a coal handling and processing plant, rail load-out facility, tailings storage facilities, spoil dumps, mining voids, site water management dams, the permanent relocation of a section of Horse Creek and an accommodation village. The predicted mine life is approximately 40 years including construction, operation, decommissioning and rehabilitation.

Community

The site is situated on predominantly freehold land and includes parts of some public roads that will need to be relocated for the project to proceed. An ongoing community consultation program has been operating as part of the EIS studies and for the project in general.

Geology

The shallow target seams at Elimatta are a part of the Upper Walloon Coal Measures. The Walloon subgroup features regular coal seams of between 0.3-6m thickness, typically consisting of multiple coal plies per seam. The upper A and B seams are consistently thicker than the other seam units and less banded in their appearance. These target seams also coalesce in the central region of the site, creating a 10-13 metre thick sparsely banded coal unit.

Approvals Process

The Elimatta project has progressed through the Land Court process and is now negotiating landholder and council compensation agreements prior to the granting of the mining leases.